Leafs GM Kyle Dubas has built a blue line that might be good enough for the playoffs, DamoSpin writes. With Giordano and Lyubushkin, the team has some added some veteran know-how and muscle to Toronto’s defence.
If early impressions are accurate, it is certainly something that general manager Kyle Dubas is going to have to entertain, particularly if Giordano, like Jason Spezza and Wayne Simmonds, turns out to be so enamoured with playing in his hometown that he might be willing to continue to do so at a cut-rate price that benefits a team that’s always battling the salary cap.
The comparison has been made to Brian Leetch’s brief stay in Toronto back at the tail end of the 2003-04 season. Folks forget, but Leetch was actually a pretty successful Leaf, a point-a-game player under Pat Quinn. The Leafs were a fading group by that point, however, and when the lockout ruined the entire 2004-05 season, Leetch played one more season in Boston and called it a career.
Fair enough. The Leafs’ goalie story is an ongoing one. But the failure of the Leafs GM in that area shouldn’t detract from the reality that he was able to make substantial and necessary improvements to the Toronto defence at a time many top clubs were looking for defencemen — Boston paid a fortune for Hampus Lindholm — and other teams knew the Leafs were desperate because of an injury to Jake Muzzin.
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